Presidential Council of the Soviet Union
The Presidential Council was created in March 1990 to replace the Politburo as the major policymaking body in the USSR. According to article 127 in the Soviet constitution the job of the presidential council was "to implement the basic thrust of USSR's domestic and foreign policy and ensure the country's security". It was abolished on 26 December 1990. Only the writer Valentin Rasputin was a non-party member.
The members were as follows:
| Name | Occupation |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | A Kyrgyz writer |
| Vadim Bakatin | Minister of Interior |
| Valery Boldin | Head of the Central Committee General Department |
| Nikolai Gubenko | Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union |
| Albert Kauls | Chairman of the Adazhi agromdustnal combine |
| Vadim Medvedev | Secretary for Ideology of Central Committee CPSU |
| Yury Maslyukov | Chairman of the State Planning Committee |
| Yury Osipian | Physicist and Vice Chairman of the USSR Academy of Sciences |
| Yevgeny Primakov | Chairman of the USSR Soviet of the Union |
| Valentin Rasputin | A nationalist writer |
| Grigory Revenko | The head of the president's staff |
| Alexander Yakovlev | A senior secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
| Stanislav Shatalin | Economist |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union |
| Gennady Yanayev | Vice President of the Soviet Union |
| Venyamin Yarin | Chairman of the United Workers Front |
| Dmitry Yazov | Marshal and Minister of Defence of Soviet Union |